Friedrich Nietzsche
What is Life?
Life - that is : continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is : to be cruel and inexorable towards all that becomes weak and old in ourselves and not only in ourselves. Life - that means, therefore to be without reverence for those who are dying, the wretched and the old? To be continually a murderer? Yet old Moses said: "you shalt not kill!"